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Episode 55 Christmas Holiday Kickoff! Christmas Parties | Book Review The Christmas Party By Mikayla Davids | The Most Ho Ho Ho-larious Christmas Crimes Of All Time | Crazy Water Town Mineral Wells Texas | Target Santa | Lil Wayne / Kendrick ? AITA · This Is My Circus

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I'm Stephanie.
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I'm Meredith.
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And welcome to This is My Circus Christmas Season.
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Christmas Season! That was your Christmas carol.
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That was my angels.
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Adorable, yeah..
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Uh, so I feel like I haven't seen you.
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I know.
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So I've been good.
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last week was the week of Thanksgiving.
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Brian was off of work all week.
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We spent one day, we just start to the mountains for the day, local, Blowing Rock and, I worked last week up until Thursday and, it was a really low key, for me, like, we didn't have a lot going on.
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We went to a family's house, but nothing bigger major, you know, anything like that.
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Now, Jackson had a lot of plans.
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So, you know, just driving him, picking him up, driving him, picking him up.
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He had basketball practice early a couple of days.
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So, but it was just chill.
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It was just chill.
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How was your trip?
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It was good.
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It was really cool.
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so we drove down there.
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We're supposed to go Friday.
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Ruthie's birthday was Friday.
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Dylan asked if we can go Saturday.
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So, I don't know if my maps app went just wonky or if maybe there was a bunch of accidents like on the highways.
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It took us the entire way other than the first hour.
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All back roads.
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Shut up.
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Back roads the entire way.
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Y'all left on Saturday.
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I bet it was just traffic.
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I was like, it was bananas.
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Yeah.
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We were in all these like small towns.
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Didn't it take like a really long time?
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No, it was about the time.
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Okay.
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The ending time was the same.
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Yeah, then when we left and it showed all.
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I consider that the time to beat.
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Same.
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so yeah, I like riding through all the little small towns and stuff though.
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Now I'm not at night.
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It was just so bizarre.
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It is really.
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There must have just been so much traffic for the upcoming holiday and stuff.
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It must have just been cuckoo.
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But, did you get to do the manatees?
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Yes, we did.
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So we did that on Sunday.
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it was super, super cool.
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The dude that took us on the boat and brought us in the water, the water was so cold and they gave us wetsuits.
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And.
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The little masks or whatever, but it was so cold.
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and do the wetsuits cover your feet or your feet?
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Like open?
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No, your feet are open.
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Okay.
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Do you wear socks?
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No, no, but, Oh my gosh.
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I know that had been amazing.
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It was so cool.
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So.
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They don't do a lot.
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They're baked baked potatoes.
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They just kind of float around, but there are, there was a couple of them that were like super active in the water and we were kind of just like all floating like around the ones that were groundless looking at them or whatever and they would come up every like three to five minutes to take a breath and they would be like, they would like puff out out of their nostrils and then breathe in and then go back down.
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But, Dylan was like on the side of me and he looks over and the manatee is like barreling at him.
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Full blast, full steam ahead.
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He's like, oh, oh crap.
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And we all have our snorkels in so you can just hear it go.
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So, What was he doing?
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Did he like go right under Dale?
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Yeah, like when it was scooted or whatever.
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But, Then there was another manatee that kept like brushing up on me and the tour guy, like he was like really swimming around and stuff.
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And the tour guy said, he's like, Oh, he really likes you.
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And I was like, cause they they're like, you know, don't touch him.
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If it comes near you, just stop and float.
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Yeah.
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Like they know how to navigate around people.
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So I'm just like frozen.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So was it deep water or were your feet on the?
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No.
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Well, they didn't want you to put your feet down cause it would.
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Bring up all the sediment.
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Okay.
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And make it foggy or whatever.
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Yeah.
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It was probably, I don't know, probably like four feet.
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I'm sure.
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So you're tread water.
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Yeah.
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I mean, like just floating floating.
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Yeah.
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We had a pool noodle.
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Oh, perfect.
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Perfect.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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but yeah, so the, what was really cool was a couple of the manatees kept coming up to the guy in the water and like booping them on the nose and like interacting with him.
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And he said that manatees can, Remember up to 60 humans in their life, like on their heartbeats or whatever they think.
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And he's in the water he said between 6 and 10 hours a day.
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So a lot of the manatees get to know the people, um, and one of the manatees, came over and started rolling like around him.
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New goal to go long enough to, as many jobs, the coolest job.
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Were there any babies?
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I did not see any babies.
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Yeah.
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Probably not the time of year for babies.
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It is actually.
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It was just all big ones.
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Okay.
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and they're huge, right?
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Oh my God.
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So as it was going on, I was, Legit freezing.
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Yeah.
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And, was it constantly in the water or were you kind of in and out?
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No, in the water.
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Okay.
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And it was like, I think we were in the water for at least two hours.
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so there was a manatee chewing on the boat anchor, like the chain or just like, drop it away on it and it came up.
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And so we were over there, me and Dylan and, Brandon didn't get in the water.
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He was on the boat and a couple of people had already gone out of the water that was on our boat.
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And.
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The manatee comes up and like spits on Dylan.
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It was, what did he do?
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Did he just laugh?
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They were all like, oh my god Everybody like burst out laughing.
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He's like, oh, yeah.
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Yeah So then the big joke later that night was I think he had sent Jonas the video and Jonas was like, you got hocked to it by a manatee.
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That's funny.
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So that was the big joke.
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Oh gosh.
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That's, I was, cannot believe that.
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So we were at the plumbers on Thanksgiving.
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I can't believe they didn't tell us about that.
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But it was really cool.
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Bucket list checked off.
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Mm-Hmm.
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and, yeah.
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Good.
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I don't know if I would do it again.
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you don't want to go enough where the manatees recognize you.
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Well, after the whole like, spit in the face thing, I was like, I'm so cold.
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Mm-Hmm.
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Dylan.
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I was like, are you gonna get out soon?
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'cause I didn't wanna make him feel like, yeah, get out.
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Yeah.
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He's like, mom, your lips are blue.
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Oh.
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Like they're blue.
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I'm like, I'm gonna get out.
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I'm, I'm pretty full.
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I, I was shaking, the whole entire body was convulsing.
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Yeah.
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and the guy that stayed on the boat was like, do you want some hot coffee or hot cocoa, please?
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Yeah.
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Everybody was like, Oh my God, you are like literally blue.
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Did it take you forever to warm up after that?
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It did.
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I brought sweatpants and a hoodie.
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I knew I was going to be cold in the water.
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I didn't realize I'd be that cold.
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But I brought towels and so I was like wrapped up in towels, trying to get as much water off my swimsuit before.
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Yeah.
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Hurry in.
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Uh, sweatpants on but yeah, my skin was cold to the touch for probably an hour and a half Oh, i'm sure that's crazy.
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Yeah.
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I'm glad you made it out.
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Got my color back You did you heard there is no blue to be seen.
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I was the icing princess.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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What?
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You are green.
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That's your great shirt.
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It's my Grinch.
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So we are going to have a Grinch week.
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Yes.
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So I've got another, you've got another great shirt.
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Okay.
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but today we were talking about Christmas party.
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Yes.
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did you, what?
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Okay.
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Just side note.
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Have you seen the target?
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Commercial with the Santa for this year.
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Uh uh.
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Oh, they got they they got a good they got because they got you feeling some kind Of way about Santa Claus.
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Let me put I need my glasses He is he is it's their do you um, they call him the new employee like all these skits with him Working at Target.
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I think his name is Chris K Oh Well, yeah, I was just, that is great.
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I like the Silver Fox.
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That's awesome.
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Yes.
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So that's awesome.
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Whoever is in the marketing department For Target.
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Thumbs up.
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Oh, did you do any shopping online?
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Did you find I did.
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Get a little I got Dylan a couple of pairs of Hey Dudes.
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Because they were super cheap.
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Yeah.
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And, I got, Dylan Cologne.
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Yeah.
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I got, um, well, Jackson won't listen, but I got, Macy's does this thing where you get a sampler, and it's like, I think it's 15 or 20, maybe even more, Samples of different clones like Jackson really likes he likes a Versace.
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Mm hmm, but but I was like Well, you might like one of these other ones and it was like 15 bucks all of it.
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I was like, yeah yeah.
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Do.
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Um, so Christmas parties, did you read our book again?
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Okay.
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so.
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When I went to go download it on hoopla, I was out of, you were out of borrows.
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I was, so I went on.
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Libby wasn't there.
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And then I went on Kindle Unlimited and they had it there, but they did not have the audio book with it.
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So if you have the Alexa app, Alexa will read books for you.
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But it's in the monotone Alexa.
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So I listened to that on the way back from Florida because Dylan had his headphones on.
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He was watching Netflix.
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So I listened to it the whole way back in monotone.
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Yeah, sure.
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That was exciting.
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So I did not get the full experience.
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Okay.
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But well, I'll fill you in with what the experiences say.
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So it was the Christmas party by Michaela Davids.
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And our little blurb for the day, a family reunion, a shocking secret, a night to die for.
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On a dark and stormy December night, the Bailey family are gathered at an isolated hotel in the English countryside.
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They're reuniting for the first time since the accident that shattered their lives 10 years ago.
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It's a time for love and forgiveness, but more than one guest has an ulterior motive.
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The perfect daughter, the alcoholic, the single mother, the liar.
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The handsome husband, the adulterer, the beautiful sister, the jealous sibling, the murderer.
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As the clock strikes midnight, one member of the party is found dead at the foot of a grand marble staircase.
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Everyone is a suspect, but which one of them is a killer?
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Dun dun! So, first off, off the bat, why did the married people's names have to be Erin and Aaron?
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I know.
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That was the stupidest thing.
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Why?
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Yeah.
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I kept waiting for there to be a reason, like there was going to be a letter addressed or somebody looking for Aaron and it was other, like, I kept looking for the reason and there was none.
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Yeah.
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It was in.
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Yeah, it was, it was crazy.
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I know listening to it the way you did, you probably even had a harder time figuring out who was who.
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Yeah.
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Because of the, that was the stupidest thing in the world to me.
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I don't know why they did that.
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so, again, and I think it's because I had like to reading it.
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And.
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You don't get the inflections and you don't get that.
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I had a hard time following a lot of this and I had a hard time getting into it.
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about maybe a third of the way through.
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I was more more into it.
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I got into it.
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But I just had a hard time listening.
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I've been so surrounded by Brian.
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I had a hard time getting it finished and it was not even a long book.
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Yeah.
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so that's when I texted you yesterday and I was like, I'm having trouble.
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It was just like, he was like, let's hang out.
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I was like, Oh, but I was in it from the beginning.
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And I think it was the inflection that you were kind of dealing with, but I will say even listening to it on Hoopla, like I did.
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It was hard to tell some of the characters apart.
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Did you have that issue?
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Yes.
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Like it took me until probably 75 percent of the way through the book to remember which sister of the three sisters did what and who was what.
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I think there was too many.
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I think the main characters, to follow because then you had like their current and their past and yes, okay.
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Obviously spoilers.
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they basically rewrote the same scene in the book from a different perspective.
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And so you had to listen to them.
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To that same part several times and trying to figure out for me, because I was listening to Alexa, whose version of this, what it was and keeping track of whose past was whose.
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I got confused several times.
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And I had to like actually really put a lot of thought into what was going on.
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Yeah.
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A hundred percent.
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It was, it was very difficult.
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To tell because the girls their personalities were different but they came across the same if that makes any sense like there There wasn't like a real haughty attitude or a real, you know, humble Person that kind of sounded meeker.
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They all came across the same.
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Yeah, and that tough.
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And like you said, some scenes they would do from different perspectives.
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And I would be like, cause you know, you kind of half listen sometimes.
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I was like, wait, I already heard this.
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Or I would think that my app was like skipping or something.
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And I was like, so I wasn't a fan of that.
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No.
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I also think that the twists and turns were good.
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Yeah.
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I thought it was the mom.
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Okay.
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That kills Aaron.
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After he kind of like went off on her.
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Yeah.
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and Jesse said that the mom already said that she would make his life a living hell if he left.
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The other daughter, Sasha, Sasha.
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so I thought she killed Aaron and was pinning it on Jesse because he was going to leave Sasha.
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Okay.
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So I thought she was killing literally I didn't know what to think.
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I wasn't sold on anybody really.
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I don't know.
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I, again, I was confused most of this book of the ending.
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So the dad, the bio dad of Sasha and Aaron.
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Yes.
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is in jail.
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Yes.
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And he's a bad guy.
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And another one of those that throws another character at the very end of the book so it doesn't give you the chance to work on things.
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Because we don't know where he is the whole book.
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Right.
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And we find out about halfway through that there is a bio dad.
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Yes.
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So that threw me for a little bit of a loop.
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But I think they threw that in at the end to set it up for the sequel book.
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Yes, because there is a sequel.
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Right.
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good for her for I guess finding her dad bad that it is such a bad guy and he helped her like plan this whole whatever and why did he want her to pin this whole thing on Sasha his other daughter I don't know it's a good question I don't know right like I mean that's his daughter too yeah I don't know I kept thinking that it was going to be where Jesse killed Aaron, and then she kills Jesse.
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Like, I thought it was going to be to shut him up.
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I thought she was going to do something like that.
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But yeah, I don't know why that about the dad.
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Yeah, that was weird, right?
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Yeah.
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Because that is okay.
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So one of the sisters has a different dad.
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Lee.
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That was Leah, Lee, whatever.
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Yeah.
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So, yeah, you're right.
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And he's obviously in it because he wants some of the money that she's going to inherit.
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Right.
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So, what really Broke my heart was that Aaron's daughter.
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Knowing what happened to her dad and knowing cousin's father that killed her father, and nobody wants to tell I don't know, it's like a big, big secret, which I understand because they're kids and you don't want to traumatize them any more than they have to be, but, Her being like, such a little grown up and coming to Leah and saying, I know everybody is lying to us.
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And just tell me straight.
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Like, what is it?
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I went through that whole thing with the kids.
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With Sasha's kid and Aaron's kids thinking they were siblings, like half siblings, because that was kind of one of the lives that was fed out there.
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Yeah.
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And so I kept thinking that something was going to happen there, like some kind of a bad seed situation or something, but I'm glad it didn't cause kids doing stuff like that freaks me out.
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Me too.
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What would you rate it?
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Liked it.
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I think you just have a different perspective.
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Um, but it wasn't like my favorite, favorite.
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So I'd say like a seven.
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Okay.
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I was going to go six.
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Okay.
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Point five.
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Yeah.
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Just point five.
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Yeah.
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It was decent.
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Yeah.
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It was decent.
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I think, yeah, you suffered through having her read it to you.
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So I think you would like it better if you would have listened to it the other way, but I get it.
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So that is a series.
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The next book is called The Christmas Holiday and that's the sequel to that.
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Our next theme, we didn't even talk about it, but give it to me.
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So we're going to do The Grinch.
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Next week is the Grinch.
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I love it.
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And the book we're going to read is called the Christmas killer.
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I thought you were going to go with the one you sent me earlier.
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No.
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So I was doing digging and trying to come up with our next few weeks and books and stuff.
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So I, I sent one to Steph and I'm trying to remember the name of it.
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It was like, Santa lusts after the Grinch or something like that.
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Hold on, take a screenshot.
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How the Grinch lusted after Santa.
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And by the way, if you want to read it.
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It's by Helen Walton.
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It is a series.
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So there's like one for the Valentine, Valentine's, there's like the lusty leprechaun.
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Like there's all, feel free to read it.
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If you read it, let us know how it is.
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I did not think that that's what I wanted to read.
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So we went with the killer because the Grinch is mean and ugly and he's not really a killer.
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But I saw something on Facebook the other day and it said like the Grinch didn't hate Christmas.
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He didn't like people and I think we can all agree with that.
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Yeah, I don't disagree.
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I don't disagree at all.
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I think that's very practical.
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Sometimes I feel like the Grinch.
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so Christmas parties.
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Okay.
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Did your office throw Christmas parties?
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we would go out like for a Christmas dinner.
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Yeah.
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I think we went bowling one year.
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yeah, I mean we, we did like hibachi, stuff like that.
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Yeah.
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So when I worked at, two different places, one was at the hospital, That I was telling you about what a huge doctor's office connect to the hospital.
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And one, I was an eye doctor assistant, COA, and both of those places had huge Christmas parties like with the gowns and, oh yeah, oh yeah.
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And, and the hotel.
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Yeah.
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So.
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I started going when I was, I guess, about 2021 or whatever.
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And it's like the open bar and it's, yeah, the hotel, they give you the half a day off on a Friday.
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So you can go and get ready.
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A lot of people got hotel rooms and got ready at the hotel.
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And I mean, just the whole thing.
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And then every year they like paired back a little bit, the next year, like no open bar, you get to drink tickets or whatever, you know, and it kept, and eventually it went away, but.
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Those were so much fun.
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I bet.
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Thinking of it now, I probably would be like, I want to go.
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Yeah.
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But I mean, just, you know, I never dress up like that.
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I had this one black dress that was so pretty.
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But, but, you know, it was just so much fun to, like I said, do the hotel room and to go and to get ready and have a good time and seeing all these people that you normally, you know, at work, they're really uptight or whatever.
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And just in that moment, everybody's kind of equal.
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But then there were some people and I'm like, girl, you still got to look him in the eye on Monday.
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Like calm down.
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Calm down.
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We just always had like low key casual.
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But I miss getting.
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Stressed up.
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Like, not that I, Mm-Hmm.
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got dressed up very often, but To get your hair done and your makeup on.
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Oh yeah.
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I mean, even, even just to do like a, a, what did I say?
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I wanted to do like a, a hoochie night where we ended the car.
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I, I be down with a hood rat night.
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That's what it was.
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A hood rat.
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Night.
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Hood.
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Rat hood tonight.
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I mean, we can still get dressed up and go to dinner and go out or something.
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Yeah.
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I know it's not just a lot of effort.
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Now it is.
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That's the thing.
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That's what I'm saying.
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Like, drinks in our pajamas.
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Exactly.
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On a zoom.
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Don't even leave our house.
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I can, I can twerk on a chair.
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It doesn't need to be a car.
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My nephew and niece are getting married in March.
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And well, I mean, she's not my niece yet.
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It sounded like brother and sister are getting married, but you know what I mean?
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And it's going to be formal, like formal, fancy, formal.
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And I am looking forward to and terrified and already, nervous and all the things about finding something to wear and doing the hair and the makeup.
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And it'll be fun and I'm going to look amazing, but I'm more worried about, getting Brian in a suit.
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It's not a suit guy.
19:56
Yeah.
19:57
And Brooke, the bride, she's so sweet because she, she was over last weekend for Thanksgiving when we were hanging out and she was like, you know, it's formal.
20:05
And cause I've been trying to ease Brian into, you're going to have to wear a suit.
20:09
And, I was like, what do you consider formal?
20:11
She was like, well, you know, a suit.
20:12
And I was like, see Brian.
20:13
She was like, but whatever.
20:14
I mean, and I was like, no stick to your guns, Brooke.
20:19
Jackson's going to be in oh, sure.
20:20
I think so.
20:21
He'll.
20:22
Be there singing people and stuff.
20:24
Yeah.
20:25
my sister's wedding, Dylan and my brother were flower boys.
20:30
Oh, yeah.
20:32
That's adorable.
20:33
That's adorable.
20:34
So they had a fanny packs at bay.
20:36
Yes.
20:36
Yes.
20:37
Well, I told him I would be his best man.
20:39
he's got two brothers and his dad and obviously it's tough Trying to, you know, figure all that out.
20:45
So I told him to take the pressure off.
20:47
I would do it and He declined and then I told him I'll be a flower girl and I would rock it And there was something else called like an ant a fly like a ant of something I don't know.
20:59
I was like I can be that and then I was like, okay, I got it I just got my notary stuff and when you're a notary you can perform weddings.
21:09
I am ordained.
21:11
Are you ordained?
21:11
I am.
21:14
Well, I'm a notary in South Carolina and I told them that I would do their wedding and he was like we'll let you know.
21:19
You haven't, why are you ordained and how?
21:22
I married my mom and her husband.
21:23
Did you?
21:24
Did you do the online thing?
21:26
Uh huh.
21:27
I need like 14.
21:28
95.
21:29
Joey Tribbiani.
21:30
Does that ever expire?
21:31
No.
21:34
That is awesome.
21:36
I need that to go with my notary.
21:40
I want all of it.
21:41
Give me all of the things.
21:42
All of the little things that I can add to do.
21:46
Yeah, that's cool.
21:47
Yeah, I was probably more nervous then It was so windy like it was outside and it was windy and I was like my papers are gonna probably fly away Did you do like a whole?
21:59
Ceremony.
22:00
Yeah, but it wasn't like super long or like very churchy or anything.
22:03
Yeah, it was short and sweet.
22:05
Yeah.
22:06
Like you.
22:08
I'm a pocket person.
22:10
I'm more of like a Sour Patch Kid.
22:12
Lies.
22:14
that's great.
22:15
I didn't know that about you.
22:17
Oh my gosh.
22:17
Have you ever played the game?
22:19
Where, you have a bunch of people, it's like kind of like an icebreaker thing and you put in one random fact and then you put it in a pot and then you have to match the fact with the person.
22:27
I never played it, but yeah, I know what you're talking about.
22:29
That should have been one of yours if you ever get the chance to play it, but I'm an ordained minister.
22:35
Yeah, I'm an ordained minister.
22:36
Yeah, nobody would ever.
22:38
No, definitely not.
22:39
Yeah, definitely not.
22:41
Um, all right.
22:42
So I found ho ho hilarious crimes.
22:47
Are they by hoes?
22:48
No.
22:49
Well, they might be, I don't know.
22:50
Okay.
22:53
What are the hilarious crimes?
22:55
All right.
22:55
Bad dad stuffs kids in car boot like unwanted gifts.
23:01
William Benton, a responsible father hailing from the city of Lancaster in Texas, was en route to the local Christmas parade in 2012 when he was stopped for driving a car with stolen plates.
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That's when officers discovered four kids under the age of 11 stuffed in the trunk.
23:18
He was arrested on the spot but grumbled that they were only in there for transport purposes, which is both fair and reasonable.
23:25
So they were his kids.
23:27
It's not like he was, yeah, kidnapping.
23:29
Why does he have a stolen plates or stolen car?
23:31
Yeah, that dad has made some, some choices for sure.
23:36
He was bringing them to the Christmas parade.
23:38
I guess, and he wanted them, he didn't want them to know where they were going.
23:41
I don't know.
23:42
Oh my gosh.
23:43
Can I read this one?
23:43
Yes.
23:44
Overexcited kid gets arrested for opening his presents early.
23:48
How do you teach a lesson to a child who won't heed your warnings about opening Christmas presents too early?
23:53
You have them locked up.
23:54
That's what happened to a 12 year old South Carolina kid back in 2006 after his mom called the cops when she, learnt he'd unwrapped a Nintendo Game Boy Advance from his old Nan a few weeks early.
24:09
According to a police report, he was arrested for petty larceny, parenting goals, tbh.
24:16
Oh my gosh.
24:17
Yeah.
24:17
That's, that's crazy.
24:19
Did you ever, find the Christmas presents hidden?
24:22
Did.
24:23
Did you?
24:23
What, how old were you?
24:25
Old enough to know that there wasn't a thing?
24:27
Kids don't listen to our thing.
24:29
Nobody that's that young.
24:30
Yeah.
24:30
Don't listen if you have little kids that believe.
24:32
Yeah, old enough to know.
24:34
Yeah, that, but I still will snoop in and want to see.
24:38
Yeah, so mom hid it.
24:39
I found it in a suitcase.
24:41
Like she had luggage and then it was under her bed or in a closet and it was a phone for my room.
24:48
Not my own phone line, mind you, but still a phone in my room.
24:52
Yeah.
24:52
So you didn't have to like try to Oh yeah.
24:54
Record, there was two, a pink and a blue.
24:56
Of course mine was blue.
24:57
My sister's was pink.
24:59
Did your mom do that?
25:00
Like when she or whoever, when you got presents from somebody for like you and your siblings, did y'all have specific colors?
25:07
You kind of always got Mm-Hmm.
25:08
I feel like my sister always got the pink stuff and I got whatever the other colors of them were.
25:16
You got the leftover, I got the leftover colors.
25:19
Feel some way about that?
25:21
No, I'm just kidding.
25:22
But, um, anyway, and I was very disappointed that I found it very sad.
25:26
Yeah.
25:27
Mm-Hmm.
25:28
How about you?
25:28
Were you a snooper?
25:29
Not really, but because I was the youngest Mm-Hmm.
25:33
My siblings were afraid that if my parents knew that, I didn't believe that we wouldn't get.
25:39
or as good of gifts.
25:42
And so it was like forever.
25:43
I mean, I found out younger, but yeah.
25:46
obviously with older siblings.
25:48
Yeah.
25:48
but my mom, and I was probably like 12 and she's like, You know, right?
25:53
Right.
25:54
And I was like, yeah, but do we still get presents?
25:58
She's like, yeah, you just get to like shop for them and you could help me help me wrap.
26:02
I was like, okay Okay, that works.
26:04
I don't know how old Jackson was when he stopped believing We've never really had a conversation about it.
26:13
I mean, I don't want to like tell them.
26:15
Dylan.
26:15
So he was in first grade in this little.
26:17
Oh my God.
26:18
Oh, but the little kid went to school telling everybody that there was.
26:23
No magical things at all.
26:25
We went through the list because Dylan came home and he was so upset and that's when I came up with the rule.
26:29
And I told Dylan, I said, everybody has different beliefs.
26:32
So we don't discuss politics, religion, or Santa Claus.
26:37
I like it.
26:38
And, I said, Maybe he's, he's on the naughty list and he doesn't get anything.
26:41
And that's why he doesn't, Yeah, that's why he doesn't believe or right, you know, like I kind of went through that.
26:46
but he was probably having third grade, maybe second, third grade.
26:50
Um, because a an older kid across the street told him, Oh, So it breaks my heart now, I saw something online, like how to explain or how to talk when, when it comes up.
27:02
And so we did go through, like, the spirit of Christmas and how, you know.
27:06
It's, part of giving and the whole whatever.
27:10
So, whatever I found, online that was such a good, it was perfect timing.
27:14
Now, did Santa wrap Dylan's presents?
27:17
Jackson's too.
27:19
now you still buy them.
27:21
Stuff for Dylan.
27:22
Yeah.
27:22
Do you put it all out before Christmas or do you still wait and put a couple out like that?
27:26
As I buy it, I wrap it.
27:29
Yeah.
27:31
I put a couple of things under the tree for me and Brian, usually clothes and heaters.
27:35
He's so excited about that.
27:36
Last year and I probably will this year, put just a couple more out just to be like, you know, I mean, I remember that first morning I came downstairs.
27:44
I don't know why I said that because we lived in a single story house.
27:49
I came down the stairs and I saw ye old Christmas tree.
27:54
Now I'm a leprechaun.
27:58
And our hallway was like this long.
27:59
It's not even like it was.
28:01
Anyway, walk down the hall, no stairs involved.
28:04
And, it's like everything looked the same as it did the day before.
28:08
I was like, yeah.
28:09
And our kids are Yeah.
28:15
They both really are.
28:15
They're good kids and we buy stuff for them.
28:17
Well, I used to hide all of Dylan's presents at my mom's house.
28:20
And after you'd go to sleep drive over, like two to three trips.
28:26
Oh yeah.
28:28
If there was big things.
28:29
Right.
28:29
and so, Because he is a snooper.
28:35
He's his mama's son.
28:36
He is a snooper.
28:37
Now, did you guys do an Elf on the Shelf?
28:40
Yes.
28:40
We did too.
28:41
I still, I might put him out tomorrow just to see what Jackson says.
28:45
I know today, well, today's December 1st and today was supposed to be the day, but just to see if there's any reaction from him.
28:50
He'll probably, mama.
28:52
I almost bought yesterday.
28:54
The Snoop.
28:55
Yes.
28:55
We did too.
28:56
It was at, we saw it at Walmart.
28:58
Uh huh.
28:58
And the Snoop.
28:59
Yes.
29:00
And I was like, Brian, I really just can't justify right now spending 26 on this thing.
29:04
I said the same thing.
29:05
I saw on Facebook, somebody had posted a picture and it said, do not buy Snoop on the stoop, from Timu out of the box, the hat and hair fell off.
29:15
And now he looks like R.
29:16
Kelly and it legit looks like R.
29:17
Kelly.
29:20
That's just gonna traumatize people even more.
29:24
I laughed so hard.
29:25
That is funny.
29:26
I don't think I would have even looked on T Move for Snoop on the spot.
29:29
No they do have everything.
29:31
They do.
29:32
All right.
29:33
So the next, ho ho hilarious is dude gets high and decorates his neighbor's home without permission.
29:46
He's trying to be nice.
29:47
That you know how you said a few weeks ago that like my crime would be like rescuing a dog that doesn't need rescuing.
29:53
That would be me if I did drugs, like I would go decorate somebody else's stuff.
29:58
That Back in 2011, a guy called Terry Trent of Dayton, Ohio, got blasted on bath salts.
30:07
Wow, that's a Blasted on bath salts.
30:10
It's not just like getting like a little high on Right, no, no gummies, right.
30:14
Okay, broke into his neighbor's house.
30:16
Decked it out in Christmas spinery as well as hanging a wreath on the garage door and arranging candles on the coffee She went inside.
30:25
Yeah Um arranging candles on coffee and kitchen tables He also helps himself to some of the presents under the tree Trent had only the best intentions but home invasions is illegal even at christmas time.
30:40
What about santa?
30:41
No comment.
30:43
It was Silver Fox.
30:49
That seriously sounds, I mean, not the stealing and all that stuff, but like just that's so funny.
30:59
All right.
31:00
Oh, next one is, do you want to read this one?
31:03
Yep.
31:03
Snakes are stolen for the gift no one wanted.
31:07
The owner of Delta Pets in the Louisiana city of Slidell was shocked to find The back door of his business had been pryed open in December of 2011.
31:18
On entering, he realized the cash register was missing.
31:21
The whole thing.
31:22
The whole thing.
31:24
Along with a 600 ball python and two boa snakes.
31:27
Donald Lygast, Jr., 31, was later arrested and charged with the burglary, telling cops he stole the snakes as a Christmas present for his son.
31:36
Well, he stole the snakes, but what about the cash?
31:39
Right.
31:40
Maybe the snakes were attached to it and he had to take it all.
31:44
That's crazy Just empty the cash register he just stole the whole thing I mean, I'm picturing just like pick it up and put under his arm and carried it like a football.
31:52
Uh huh.
31:53
Oh All right, Christmas shoppers are attacked with a lightsaber If you've ever been to Westfield in the month of December, you know, it's not safe screaming kids and frazzled shoppers with no stuff Spatial awareness and death stares cops in Portland, Oregon received a 911 call from the manager of a Toys R Us store in 2011, who said a dude had assaulted three customers doing their Christmas shopping with a lightsaber officers tried to arrest him on arrival, but at the scene, but just like Luke Skywalker, he wouldn't quit swinging.
32:27
One tried to use his taser on the suspect and made contact, but he knocked one of the wires away with the saber.
32:34
The force was strong with that one.
32:38
That's pretty funny.
32:40
Speaking of taser, did you, I know y'all aren't huge college football fans.
32:46
There, well, it was rivalry weekend this weekend.
32:49
So, like, Clemson and Gamecocks played in, Ohio State and Michigan.
32:54
After the Ohio State and Michigan game, there was a huge brawl, and the cops had to break it up with the players.
33:00
Oh! The Michigan team tried to plant their flag in the middle of the Ohio field.
33:05
Oh, wow.
33:05
Didn't go well.
33:06
Yeah.
33:06
And, huge brawl.
33:08
Cops end up pepper spraying.
33:10
Isn't that crazy?
33:11
And the same thing happened at the North Carolina NC State game.
33:16
Don't know about the pepper spray, but try to put the flag and brawl.
33:21
I do love a good fight on the field.
33:24
Oh yeah.
33:24
During the game, not like after or whatever.
33:27
and I think it's the funniest when it's like a delayed like fallback when they're acting.
33:31
Oh, yeah, just to get the flag.
33:32
Yeah, and it's like 30 second delay fallback.
33:35
I like that.
33:36
But I, I don't like seeing it like in the stands and stuff.
33:39
Like, I want to be very removed from it.
33:41
I saw, I guess it was a couple of weeks ago.
33:43
I forgot what teams it was.
33:45
They're a bad fight.
33:46
Lots of people involved in the stands.
33:48
And that's scary.
33:49
Yeah.
33:50
So yeah, don't do that.
33:51
No, no, don't do that.
33:52
Don't drink that much beer.
33:53
Right.
33:54
Don't do anything.
33:55
Don't be an a hole.
33:56
Yeah.
33:57
We'll tell you if you are, that would make you one.
33:59
Yeah.
34:00
Did you, um, find any cool Christmas party things?
34:03
No, no.
34:04
Well this isn't Christmas party, but I saw it on TikTok and it blew my mind because I had never heard this before.
34:09
Okay.
34:10
there is, have you ever heard of crazy water?
34:13
Me either.
34:15
Until I saw this.
34:15
So, I just copied this story.
34:21
Okay.
34:21
all right Get ready for a spine tingling tour of mineral wells where the water is crazy.
34:26
The history is wild and the ghosts Well, they're always thirsty Imagine a town where mineral water isn't just a drink but a portal to the supernatural Mineral wells, texas isn't as famous for its miraculous crazy water.
34:37
It's Practically a supernatural hotspot that would make any ghost hunters emf meter go absolutely bonkers the baker hotel Oh, this place is the crown jewel of haunted history standing 14 stories tall It's less a hotel and more vertical cemetery of paranormal activity Legend has it that the hotel is crawling with spirits including a ghost of a lady who allegedly threw herself from the top floor After her lover was murdered.
35:02
Talk about dramatic afterlife.
35:03
Guests and paranormal investigators have reported everything from unexplained cold spots to full body apparitions doing their ghostly thing in the hallways.
35:12
But the hauntings don't stop at the Baker Hotel.
35:14
The entire town seems to have supernatural vibes that go deeper than its mineral springs.
35:18
Local stories whisper about Native American burial grounds, mysterious energy lines, and spirits that are apparently as attached to this place as the original water drinking crazy locals were.
35:29
The crazy water story gets even more intriguing when you mix in the supernatural.
35:33
Remember that original crazy woman who inspired the water's name?
35:37
Some locals now speculate that her craziness might have been more spiritual than medical.
35:42
Was she seeing something others couldn't?
35:45
Was the mineral water actually some kind of supernatural conduit so back story on that that this family moved to this town, was trying to do crops and stuff, but the water was so barren.
35:57
So they dug a well and when they started drinking the water, all their elements started to go away, like.
36:05
Arthritis and whatever like so they tell other people and now so all these people come to this town And are drinking the water everybody's getting healed and there was a woman that was like a little bit She's known to be like cuckoo And she went to this well every day and sat there and she drank some of it and like her crazy went away Okay, so that's where that's coming from.
36:26
Okay.
36:27
All right.
36:28
I'm not gonna go through all this, but okay.
36:29
So basically, they build this town around the springs because they're supposed to be all healing everything.
36:37
Well, the water has lithium in it.
36:41
And the other minerals and stuff, but like, lithium is what was making, all the symptoms or whatever.
36:47
So, people come because we're going to make money here, build this huge hotel and the.
36:52
Owner of the hotel was living there with his wife and his mistress.
36:56
Okay.
36:56
So when the wife, I guess, had been fed up with him having his mistress, she has one will she threw herself out of like a seventh story window, I believe.
37:08
Okay.
37:09
and is supposedly her ghost haunts it.
37:11
There's also a bellhop that is supposed to still go up and down the elevator to this day.
37:16
This is like the haunted mansion at Disney.
37:18
And so right next to that somebody built the hill house.
37:22
And it was initially built to be like a wellness center because everybody's trying to cash in on this water.
37:28
Well, it ends up turning into during prohibition, where everybody got their alcohol and women, they turned into a brothel.
37:34
Okay.
37:37
So that is right next door to this hotel and both places are supposed to be like insanely, insanely haunted.
37:43
Okay.
37:44
A bunch of ghost hunters have gone there.
37:46
You have to actually sign a waiver to go into the Hill House that if anything happens to you, during or within 72 hours after, they are not responsible.
37:55
Has stuff happened up here, I guess.
37:57
Yeah.
37:57
If they need a waiver.
37:58
Yeah.
38:00
I don't know if it was in the Hill house or in the, hotel, but one of the ghost hunters, said that they experienced something go into them and we got like super angry and we just, you know, the people that were with him just said that he completely his whole demeanor changed.
38:13
It was like, he was being like possessed.
38:16
so yeah, no, thank you.
38:17
No, no, no.
38:19
So here's like the wacky part, right?
38:20
They sell the crazy water to this day, bottled crazy water, and it's called crazy water and it's on a level of one, two, three, or four, and on the bottled water, where it shows the minerals and stuff, it says lithium on it.
38:35
Like there's, there's Still lithium that they're selling in this water.
38:39
How's that legal?
38:40
I don't know, but it's literally like the name of the water is called crazy water.
38:45
What does the, one, two, three, like how much it definitely goes up in like amounts of minerals and stuff in there.
38:53
I wonder when they found out that it had lithium in it.
38:56
Yeah.
38:56
I don't know.
38:57
Yeah.
38:57
But yeah, I mean,'cause that's a whole lot of people drinking, a lot of that.
39:02
Mm-Hmm.
39:03
Wow.
39:04
Not bananas.
39:05
That is crazy.
39:06
What's crazy to me is that they still sell it to this day.
39:10
Huh.
39:10
Before I found out about it, I was in, I was like, should I order something?
39:15
I mean, are my ankles going to stop popping?
39:19
Because, uh, um, yeah, so that whole crazy water was crazy to me, but then add in like all the hauntings and stuff and all the backstory of that was just, that's too, too many variables in one place.
39:35
You've got the hauntings, you've got.
39:38
The crazy water.
39:39
You've got woman jumping out of the, with the man and the mistress.
39:43
Like there's just a lot got the brothel.
39:48
The rich and famous would come to take the waters.
39:52
Oh, it was said the hotel, Bonnie and Clyde, stay there.
39:55
Oh, that they did.
39:56
Cause they were from Texas.
39:58
Oh my gosh.
39:59
I wonder if they drink the crazy water probably kicked off their craziness.
40:04
The hotel had like a whole spa, like the springs.
40:07
Yeah.
40:08
You were like bathing in the spa.
40:09
Yeah.
40:10
So we went right before we got married, we went to Colorado and we went to this place called Pagosa Springs and it is, Was the cool.
40:18
I'd love to go there again.
40:20
Now.
40:20
I did not appreciate it as like a 24 year old.
40:22
So I'd love to go back again now, but it was a property that had natural hot springs and it stunk because of the sulfur, of course, but it was just like hot tubs in the wild.
40:35
And it was like in a beautiful garden mountain need place.
40:39
And, each one had a different name.
40:40
Like, I don't know the volcano and it was like the hottest one and it had the temperature.
40:44
but it was supposed to be really good for you.
40:48
I did get freaked out cause, you know, again, nature outside in this garden sitting in this, just water bubbling up from the ground and like a lizard walked by.
40:59
And I mean, we haven't met our house, like they're all over our, back deck and stuff.
41:03
But, it freaked me out sitting there trying to chill in it.
41:05
Yeah.
41:06
You went, to the hot springs in Costa Rica.
41:09
Oh yeah.
41:09
and That was really cool.
41:11
But, when we got out of there, I wanted to take a nap.
41:14
I was so relaxed.
41:14
Yeah.
41:16
Yeah.
41:17
Yeah.
41:18
It almost felt like, I don't know.
41:20
I don't know.
41:21
It was weird.
41:22
Weird feeling.
41:23
Yeah.
41:23
It feels like you've been like a Xanax.
41:26
Yeah.
41:27
Yeah.
41:27
I've been medicated.
41:28
Absolutely.
41:29
But like I said, I didn't appreciate it as much as I would.
41:32
But now I think I would be like, Ooh, which one is best for my insides, which one's best for my outside, you know, all the things, um, yeah.
41:40
So did you.
41:43
About the little Wayne Kendrick drama.
41:46
No.
41:47
Okay.
41:47
So Kendrick went at little Wayne.
41:49
Okay.
41:49
I mean, he's going at it with everybody.
41:51
I know he's waking the dragon though.
41:52
Yeah.
41:53
So what, tell me about it.
41:54
So Kendrick just dropped that new album, not too long ago.
41:57
And there was something in there about little Wayne, like a line about him or whatever.
42:02
So little Wayne puts out a tweet.
42:04
And said, Man, what the F did I do?
42:07
I'd just be chillin and they'd still come before my head.
42:10
Let's not take kindness for weakness.
42:12
Let the giant sleep.
42:13
I beg you all.
42:14
No one really wants destruction.
42:16
Not even me.
42:16
But I shall destroy if disturbed.
42:18
On me, love.
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So, he apparently had reached out to Kendrick, trying to figure it out, get it squashed before it needed to go any further.
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Kendrick was not returning calls and was riding it.
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So a new diss track just got leaked from little okay, Have you heard it?
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I heard of clips of it like pieces of it and Is it good?
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It is.
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Yeah, but yeah, he woke the Sleeping dragon.
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Yeah, I'll have to listen to it because I Get kind of there's clips on it on tick tock.
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Okay, I get, into some of these beefs.
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I think that, I mean, I know most of them are for publicity.
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Yeah.
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I was just like, why?
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Like he ain't bothering nobody.
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Right.
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Just let him be a little late.
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He's just chill as a freaking cucumber.
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Right.
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Let him do his thing.
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Right.
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So this is all supposedly over the NFL show.
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A halftime show.
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Cause at the Superbowl.
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Right.
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So it's in new orleans this year and little wayne.
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Are we going?
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No just kidding.
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It's gonna be cold.
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Oh, yeah so little wayne wanted to do it because that's where he's from And so he was like a spying for it and I didn't know this but apparently the nfl let's jay z pick You The halftime show, people.
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What?
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That's what I read.
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That is cuckoo kachoo.
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Yeah, because Rihanna wouldn't do it at first, like her halftime show, when all of the Take a Knee stuff hadn't started, and there was all the drama with the NFL, and I guess they couldn't, get Black artists to do the halftime show, and they approached Jay Z.
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Jay Z got Rihanna to do it, and, They have just kept that going with Jay Z picking baddest people.
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Have you seen the, okay, I'm sorry, my, my rabbits are running all over the place.
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Have you seen the, clips on TikTok about Beyonce?
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About how everybody always thanks Beyonce and everybody always, like, this is just another, what the world?
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I don't know if this is all alleged.
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This is all tick tock drama, but yeah.
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Yeah, so this is all over that because Lil Wayne didn't congratulate Kendrick when he got the halftime show.
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Okay, so Kendrick is the halftime show performer.
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I didn't know that.
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And all this, man, this is crazy! Mm hmm.
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And Kendrick I was mad that Lil Wayne didn't congratulate him.
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He got his feelings hurt.
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Jeez.
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Supposed to be big, tough gangsters.
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I mean, you know, that's what's portrayed.
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I'm freaked out by that about Jay Z.
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Because all, the Beyonce stuff too, with people randomly in a speech, there'll be like, thank you to da, And Beyonce like, what?
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Yeah.
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Did you see, Jojo Siwa?
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I don't, I don't follow her really, but there was clips of it when all of that really like hit that everybody was thinking Beyonce and all these award speeches.
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It said, That she was on stage at some kind of dance awards, doing a, announcement thing is was like, this is our, blanket.
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Thank you to Beyonce.
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We love you.
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We love your music.
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We love shaking our ass to your music and you know, please don't come for us.
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Nobody has really seen her since.
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Oh, geez.
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Oh, girl, should've kept your mouth shut.
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Crazy.
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So you want to do, am I the a hole?
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Yup.
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Can you see that?
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Yup.
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I've got all my spectacles.
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Okay.
45:52
Those look really cute by the way.
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Oh, thank you.
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Like staring at your face.
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Like you're so pretty.
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You're sweet.
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Thank you.
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okay.
45:58
Would I be the a hole if I didn't invite my friend to my Christmas party?
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My really close friend has always been pretty hostile and rude whenever I introduce her to my other friends.
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My other friends I've had since I was a kid, I met my friend when I was 16, and we're both 27 now, and they all get along with one another except for her.
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My friends came together because of me.
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I met them all separately and started the friend group just for context Anyways, i'm throwing a super cute girls and Gays and there's Girls, Gays and Days Christmas Party.
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We're going to wear PJs decorated gingerbread and watch Christmas movies along with a present exchange.
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Nobody wants my friend to come, so I'm torn about not inviting her because the last time I didn't invite her to my friend group she didn't talk to me for three months.
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LMAO.
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But I know if I invite her she's going to act rude like she always does, so I don't know what to do.
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Okay, number one, I love the Girls and Gays and Days Party.
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Uh huh.
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Um, I wouldn't invite her.
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I wouldn't either.
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if she can't control herself and she can't.
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Right.
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And you're going to be not enjoying yourself the whole evening because you're worried about what she's going to do.
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I wouldn't invite her.
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And I probably wouldn't have still be friends with her.
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I the a hole for telling her to not be her friend anymore?
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No.
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wouldn't want everybody to be uncomfortable.
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I would say, there was an issue the last time, like, why don't you and I go out to dinner?
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Right.
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I mean, yeah, I wouldn't just be a jerk and be like, I'm having a party and you can't come.
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Well, you'd have to tell her because what all the pictures or she saw, whatever, something 10 times worse.
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Yeah.
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I would definitely say something, Last time we hung out with everybody.
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It didn't go well.
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I value our friendship.
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I would love to do something you and I one on one.
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Right.
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but I just wanted to give you a heads up.
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Yeah.
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Nobody likes you.
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Sounds like she already knows.
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I'm gonna remind you that nobody likes you.
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Yeah.
47:54
So there's a creator on TikTok and he's this gay guy and I believe he's a kindergarten teacher.
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I love this.
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Is it a black guy?
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No, okay.
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He has been doing this content on, um, Marrying your gay best friend.
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Okay.
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and for just mutual benefits of insurance, whatever.
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Right.
48:15
Right.
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Right.
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And he's like, ladies, you need to marry a gay because we are You want to go to your work Christmas party?
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I got you.
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Not only am I going to make sure you look fabulous.
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Yeah.
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We are going to hit the dates for it.
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Oh yeah.
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You want two desserts?
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I got you boots.
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Oh, this sounds perfect.
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I was like, there is some.
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Something like that.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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He did another one like, um, about going to like the holidays for your family.
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And he's like, for this, you married your gay bestie.
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He's opened the door and he's like, I know that, this is a lot.
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And your aunt, yes, she, she is.
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She looks terrible.
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Your cousin.
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I don't know what she's on, but I mean, like we have this whole thing.
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Like he's like, that's great.
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He's like, you want, one dessert and he's holding up two fingers.
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He's like, okay, I got you just one dessert, Wink Wink.
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Right, right.
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That's great.
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Yeah.
49:14
there might be some weight behind that.
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I said the same thing.
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I was like, yeah, they, they, they'll dance with you.
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They're going to make sure you look on point.
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They're always up for fun.
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Yeah.
49:26
Oh.
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And then he was like, there's no expectations at the end of the night.
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I mean, we, we can be in bed, we can canoodle, but he's like, there is an absolutely no expectations.
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Yeah.
49:38
Oh, my goodness.
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Yeah.
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Great.
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I was like, it was perfect.
49:41
Yeah.
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Keep that on the back burner.
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Oh, do you think, what do you think?
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Do you think she's an a hole?
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No, I think.
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No, I think if she doesn't invite her.
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I think that if it went badly.
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The last time you gave her a chance the last time.
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Yeah.
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I would.
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Handle it with kid gloves and say, like, I really value our friendship and I would love to, to go out for dinner or do like something with us to celebrate.
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But, with the group that's coming, I don't think it's going to be the best mix.
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Yeah, I agree.
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And I would get you to tell her.
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Or wait until after because she might, if she's like really that awful, she might just crash.
50:20
Why do you want to be friends with somebody that terrible though?
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I don't know.
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I'd be scared of her.
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Probably.
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She's probably crazy.
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Anyway, let's not continue with that.
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we got another one?
50:29
Yes.
50:29
You want me to read this one?
50:32
I wanted.
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To help a lady make Christmas magical for her kids until this.
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Okay, I 23 female came across an anonymous post on Facebook of a lady saying she needed help making her kids Christmas magical and being in the situation before I wanted to help.
50:48
So the lady started messaging me and wanted me to send money so she can get some things for her kiddos.
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I was all good and was going to send some until I asked her, well what are the ages?
50:58
I wouldn't mind buying some things for my work since I get a pretty nice discount.
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She tells me her kids are 19, 22, and 25.
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Older than her.
51:06
That she just, right, that she just bought new tires for her car and has a cruise coming up and can't afford to get them nice things this year.
51:14
Ma'am, your kids are grown and one is older than I am.
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I don't know how to tell her I thought she needed help for little kids.
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I feel like an a hole because I'd much rather donate to children who get nothing instead of people my age who are capable of working themselves.
51:29
Does this make me an a hole?
51:30
No! No! That is crazy! Bet anybody goes on the internet to cry about things.
51:39
That is crazy.
51:43
Okay, so I'm sure you're in a lot of the same groups I am, but all of them, you know, it like irks me so much.
51:48
And I probably shouldn't say this, but the anonymous posts like that annoys the crap out of me too.
51:55
And a lot of them don't even need to be anonymous, like looking for a good dentist, anonymous post, you're stupid.
52:01
But all of the posts right now, with it being the holiday season are, I need help with this, or I need help with that.
52:06
And we all have situations where we need help sometimes.
52:10
And I hate to be this way, but it's, it's just turned into nothing but.
52:15
Yeah.
52:17
Hand out people want help.
52:19
Yeah.
52:19
And if you truly need it, like, I mean, but all of these people that don't truly need it are ruining it for people that do need it.
52:24
Yeah.
52:25
Yeah.
52:25
And like this situation, right?
52:28
I didn't know this, but apparently the postal office, um, the U.
52:32
S.
52:33
PS or whatever United States Postal Office, um, does a like letter to Santa where anybody at any age can write in a wishlist and like these rich people pick wishlists to fulfill.
52:44
Really?
52:44
Yeah.
52:45
So it's cool.
52:46
It is cool.
52:47
But, but you've got grown people who don't truly need a 75 inch TV.
52:55
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
52:56
Now you're, I gotta stop you there.
52:58
No, I'm just kidding.
52:59
Or like, A new car.
53:01
Right.
53:02
The purpose of it is for children.
53:05
Or, you know, people in need.
53:06
People in need, yeah.
53:07
Um, and then you've got all these people that find out about this program that are like, Hey, I'm, uh, 42 years old and I want a Lexus.
53:17
You know, like, I mean, I don't know.
53:20
It just, it takes away from people that truly need it.
53:23
Oh, absolutely.
53:24
And then it makes it more difficult for the people that are purchasing if they do want to fund.
53:30
A person in need having to go through all of those letters.
53:33
Yeah.
53:34
It just gives me the ick.
53:35
Yeah.
53:37
Sorry.
53:37
When I'll write my letter.
53:38
I'm just kidding.
53:39
I mean, if you truly need groceries, if you truly need, right.
53:43
Like that, right.
53:44
And everybody wants a little extra, I get that.
53:47
Like, I mean, Right.
53:48
Everybody wants a little bit of extra something, but right to put these extravagant things, I mean, come on, let the people that need it get it.
53:57
Yeah, that's crappy.
53:58
I think that wraps it up though for today.
54:00
It does.
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This was the fun Christmas party app.
54:03
It was.
54:03
I know.
54:04
Are you looking forward to our grin check though?
54:05
I am.
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do you want to talk about what other ones we're doing or no?
54:09
I don't know what other ones we're doing.
54:11
Oh, I know.
54:11
I've got it.
54:12
Oh, well, then go ahead.
54:13
Okay.
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So next week we're doing the Grinch.
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And, then after that, our theme is going to be Santa.
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Santa baby.
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Yes.
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and then after that, the one that we'll release on, Christmas Eve is going to be about presents and gifts.
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Okay.
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And then, of course, the one that will release on December 31st will be New Year's Eve.
54:31
Awesome.
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And I've got all those books lined up already because I'm trying to be a better podcaster.
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And I want it on the record that I was really close to being on time today.
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I'm so proud of myself.
54:48
You should be.
54:49
It was very good.
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It won't happen next week.
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But anyway, thank y'all for listening.
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